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009: Bears, Beekeeping, & Burnout with Amy Hager, MS, RDN, CDCES, PHWC
- 2022/05/18
- 再生時間： 49 分
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Amy Hager has been a registered dietitian for 18 years. She's also a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist as well as Certified Health and Wellbeing Coach through Wellcoaches. In her career, she's enjoyed roles in wellness, employee health and diabetes management, until she opened her own business as a private practice dietitian. She enjoys the flexibility of self-employment and has several hobbies including beekeeping, documenting her mountain home build on YouTube, and making jewelry from the honeycomb of her beehives. Her private practice is primarily telehealth and insurance based. She also teaches a course to help RDs transition into self-employment and is currently working on a program to help burned out health care professionals take a Sabbatical break. Whether you’re a new RD, a healthcare worker feeling the burnout, or simply someone who’s interested in remote living, you’ll take something away from our conversation. If you like this episode please subscribe on Spotify, and head over to our blog at www.backyardrd.com, and please follow us on Instagram @BackyardRD Connect with Amy and Learn more here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-hager-rdn/ Website: https://AmyHagerRDN.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/colorado.mountain.living/ Colorado Mountain Living YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ColoradoMountainLiving Amy’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/YourInspiredLife Sabbatical School Waitlist: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/627b06c7ec932442485964f1 Script: Amy A: Hi, Amy, how are you? Amy H: I'm good. Thanks. Amy A: Good. I'm really excited to have you on today. I know I say that basically every single podcast I do, but I feel like, you know, I've been following you on LinkedIn for a while, and I'm just super interested in what you do. And from an RD perspective, I feel like you and I have very similar personalities. I would kind of consider myself like a type A-B. Where I'm creative, but also very organized. So, looking at you on LinkedIn, I kind of feel like I get that vibe too. Amy H: That's so funny you say that because I was blessed with a very organized mind so I can keep things super organized, but I'm really laid back as a person. I'm an achiever, not overachiever. So maybe that's where the, where the blend is. And that definitely creativity is a big part of my life. Amy A: Very cool. Yeah, that definitely comes out on your LinkedIn page and your YouTube page too. So getting into, [00:01:00] um, that I guess let's start right off and you can tell us your background as an RD. Amy H: Yeah. I feel like I was fortunate in that I started off as an RD in wellness. I think a lot of people maybe typically start clinical or in community and make their way, but I really had an strong interest in wellness right away. Um, so my very first job was, it was at a hospital own wellness center in North Carolina, where I taught cooking classes and weight loss classes. And I did some, one to one counseling and then I moved into diabetes management which was probably the most clinical that I got was outpatient center. I didn't have any training though, so I like to always tell that for folks that you can sometimes get jobs without the certification. And then I got the training on a job. Then I got my CDE, you know, after I qualified to take the exam. But then, I ended up meandering back into wellness, taking a job as a health coach doing onsite employee health in a corporate setting. And again, I didn't have the certification as a health coach, [00:02:00] but my company put me through the training, a certification program offered by well coaches and I loved this work because it included topics outside of nutrition. So I got to do a lot with fitness and stress management and smoking cessation, and I really thought this was the pinnacle of my career until I decided to make the transition into self employment through private practice. Amy A: That's really cool. And I definitely feel like you and I are on the same page because I actually started my career off in North Carolina too, but unlike you, I did start off in clinical, believe it or not. So. Did that for, I think six or seven years. And then now I do work for a corporate wellness company, but I work on a different side where I work with dietetic interns. So I kind of feel like you and I are on the same page there. So you mentioned your private practice. Why did you decide to open your own private practice and what advice would you give to new RD's wanting to [00:03:00] do the same? Amy H: I felt like I was really fortunate in every job that I had and I always made the most of it and it kind of felt like I would come to this point and in the position where either there was nothing else for me to learn or there was nowhere else for me to grow. And I just overall got tired of working in large organizations because there was a lot of micromanagement. It felt like even though I was...